Codex Upgrade to Pro is Completely Broken on VS Code
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Apr 1, 2026 by brucedkyle Closed Apr 2, 2026
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What version of the IDE extension are you using?
Multiple
What subscription do you have?
Updated to Pro
Which IDE are you using?
vs code
What platform is your computer?
Windows
What issue are you seeing?
"You're out of Codex messages. Come back next week." Click Upgrade. nothing happens. Log into the site and upgrade.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
"You're out of Codex messages. Come back in next week." Click Upgrade. nothing happens.
Log into Codex site. Upgrade to Pro.
Restart VS Code. see error.
Change versions of Codex. See error.
Reboot windows, see error.
Remove Codex. reinstall Codex. see error.
What is the expected behavior?
Use Codex.
Additional information
No debugging. No visibility that I may be in mismatched accounts. No way to debug that I can tell. _AWFUL User Experience after an INCREDIBLE awesome start._
It's Unusable now until Saturday.
with NO guidance on how to fix as far as I can figure out. The Internet answers don't work. And you cannot ask Codex.
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Use the version 0.4.79 (is a fine)
Were you able to get this working?
After upgrading your subscription, it can take a little while (tens of minutes) for the update to propagate if you're already logged in with your old (pre-upgrade) subscription. If you log out and log back in, the updated subscription information will be recognized immediately.
Thank you @etraut-openai for your kind follow up. Unfortunately, I am still blocked. Rebooting, uninstallting, reinstalling. I tried the prerelease version.
I am currently using 26.325.31654 (Feature request for VS Code: There doesn't seem to be a way to copy the version number or find it from the installation panel.) Restarted. Restarted VS Code.
I keep wondering if I am connecting to a different account. After some investigation, that seems most possible.
But I do not see where I can check in Settings. I may have missed it. There must be a global setting I have not found that I can reset. The UI button to upgrade remains unresponsive. And I do not see where I can find out which credentials Codex is using.
(I see that Upgrade button doesn't take you anything to upgrade.)
There is a Setting under a wheel at the top of that Codex chat "Upgrade for higher limits" that does take me to ChatGPT, signs me in automatically (to some personal default account?). After looking around in a few clicks, It is not obvious what plan I am in. I asked ChatGPT. I see I am under the Plus plans and it is recommending me to join the Business Plan.
I have another account on the Pro Plan that I thought was the one I used with VSCode. But how do I find out what user I am using in VS Code? And how do I get VS Code Codex to use the identity I need.
And the codex will only respond with "come back Saturday". Appreciate your willingness to help. Just not sure what to do next.
How do I debug a possible mismatch in accounts? How to reset my user Id to the account that I have set up for Pro? Where is the global setting that has wired up the identity of Codex with ChatGPT?
I think that is the right question. Is among a list of feature requests:
Here's the update. Here's what my fix was.
Step 1. Find the gear icon at the top of the chat in Visual Studio Code. It may be hidden. But it is just under CODEX on the Tasks bar.
Step 2. If you don't see your identity, Log out.
Step 3. You will see a Codex page vibrating page. Sign in with ChatGPT. You can then pick your account. Go through the sign in and consent. You're in ChatGPT. On the localhost.
Step 4. Walk through all the Next button that sets up Codex in your IDE.
Step 5. Click gear icon. I see my username.
Step 6. Now see what status you actually are in that account. Log into ChatGPT. That may or may not be the account you want to connect to Visual Studio Code (or your IDE). AFAIK, it will automatically log you into whatever account you did last. So you may not want to trust it. It might even have your name right (from another account you may have). The actual user name is in the lower left with a color icon. But I didn't find the sign in account anywhere. You may have the same name on multiple accounts Recommend, just log out.
Step 7. Go to https://chatgpt.com and log in using the sign in of the account you want to use. You still can't really tell which account you are using. But now you know what account you are logged into.
Step 8. Click Codex in the left panel. It will take you through a process that you can eventually connect up your GitHub account.
Step 9. Down in the lower left corner, is your username. And your status. Upgrade plan if you need to upgrade it to Plus, Pro, Business.
Step 10. @etraut-openai is correct, Codex in Visual Studio Code does update your account and gets rid of the unworkable Upgrade button in the VS Code chat window. At least it did for me AFTER the account matches the upgraded account matching the Codex username in Visual Studio Code.
Step 11. Finally, I asked Codex in VS Code, "Am I back? and the first time it gave me an error that the servers were overloaded. I tried it again, and Codex responded _"Yes. You’re back in the workspace, and right now you’ve got (my workspace) open."_
Back in business.